OS X has been with us for a few years now, and Emacs has been coming along slowly and surely. We must have hit some sort of a tipping point, and there are a whole lot of people working on the problem; the result is that life is getting better and better for the Emacs tribe. This piece opens with a brief sermon on why, if you%u2019re not already using Emacs, you might want to check it out; and then surveys the state of play and the multiple interesting emacses that are out there.